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A portrait of the bard is presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's Birthplace, and academics, in an account that also shares the author's whimsical recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon. (Biography & Autobiography)

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William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself.

Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a basement room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed.

Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness. His Shakespeare is like no one else'sâthe beneficiary of âBryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivalled in our time.

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Hardcover

from Eminent Lives (November 1, 2007)

9780060740221 | details &amp prices | 199 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.78 lbs | List price $19.95About: A portrait of the Bard is presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's birthplace, and academics, in an account that also shares the author's recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Paperback

Reissue edition from Perennial (April 26, 2016)

9780062564627 | details &amp prices | 199 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $13.99About: Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts.

Reprint edition from Perennial (November 1, 2008)

9780061673696 | details &amp prices | 197 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.36 lbs | List price $13.99About: William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts.

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Large print edition from Harpercollins (November 1, 2007)

9780061363917 | details &amp prices | 245 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $19.99About: A portrait of the bard is presented in the style of a travelogue based on interviews with actors, the curator of Shakespeare's Birthplace, and academics, in an account that also shares the author's whimsical recollections of his own adventures in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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